Arthur Mayo-Robson

Sir Arthur William Mayo-Robson (1853 to 1933), also written Mayo Robson, was an English surgeon born in Filey, Yorkshire, the son of a chemist; he added Mayo to his surname as an adult. He studied at Leeds School of Medicine from 1870, became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1874, began lecturing at Leeds in 1876 and in 1884 became a surgeon at the General Infirmary. He was professor of surgery at Yorkshire College from 1890 to 1899 and moved to London in 1902. He wrote books on gallstones, diseases of the gall bladder and bile duct, the stomach and the pancreas, and cancer of the stomach, and is described as a pioneer in biliary surgery and orthopedics; two anatomic terms, the Mayo-Robson point and Mayo-Robson's position, carry his name. He was president of the British Gynaecological Society. In the First World War he served in France, Turkey and Egypt as a colonel in the Army Medical Service, was made a Companion of the Bath in 1916 and knighted in 1918, and he died in London in October 1933.